Burial-casket.



J. M. ARNOLD.

'BURIAL GASKET. APPLICATION FILED APR. 29, 1912.

Patented July 2, 1912.

p I n i I000 5 u I JAMES M. ARNOLD, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

BURIAL-CASKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2 1912.

Application filed April-29, 1912. Serial No. 693,821.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES .M. ARNOLD, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Freeport, county of Stephenson, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Burial-Caskets, of which the following is a full and clear specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section of j casket will resemble exactly the top of the a burial casket constructed in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2 1s an enlargedvertical sectional view through one corner of the casket. Fig. 3 is a View partly in longitudinal section and partly in side elevationof the casket.

The objectof this invention is to so construct a hermetically sealed metal casket that it shall have the appearance of the more expensive wooden caskets and shall becapable of as great a variation as to design and style as the well known wooden casket,

a great saving in expense of manufacture being thereby gained.

In the drawing a designates a metal casket of any'suitable shape and which is provided along its lower edge with wooden moldings b and along its upper edge with inward turned flanges 0. Removably clamped to the flanges c is a metal cove plate d, which inclines upwardly and inwardly and which carries the glass plate 6, this glass plate being leaded to the cove and a suitable packing or gasket f being placed between the "cove d and the flange 0. In this way a Y hermetically sealed metallic casket is provided. The moldingdb serve to stiffen the lower edges of the casket walls and to assist in giving the casket the apparanceof an ordinary Wooden casket of more costly construction. To give the casket still further the appearance of awooden casket, I fasten to the upper edges of the body walls wooden moldings g the upper edges of which become substantially flush with the upper faces of the flanges 0.. To these moldings are removably. secured the cove pieces It of the top of the casket, these pieces lnclining inwardly and upwardly to a point above the metal coves d. Upon the upper edges of the cove pieces 72, is removably mounted the panel or top board 2', which may be. made slidable or removable if desired.

It will be observed that the top of the usual wooden casket, while at the same time the casket is hermetically sealed In this way, I can employ a metallic casket (the desirability of which lies in the fact that it is inexpensively constructed and is hermetically sealed) while at the same time I give to the casket the highly ornamental and elegant appearance of the usual all wood casket.

With my construction it will be observed that I can vary the style and design of the casket to the'same extent that can be accomplished with an all-wood casket.

Having'thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In a burial casket comprising a metal body hermetically sealed, wooden moldings attached to the exterior of its upper edge, wooden cove pieces fastened to said moldings and extending upwardly above the top of the metal casket, and a panel board supported on said cove pieces, whereby the entire upper hermetically-sealed portion of the metal casket is inclosed in a wooden frame.

In testimony whereof'I hereunto aiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

, JAMES M.- RNOLD. Witnesses:

E.II-I. SELLE, VERNON SHEETZ.

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